Murder, She Said ( 1961, directed by George Pollock ) was the first of four British MGM productions starring Rutherford.

Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.

Similarly, TV heroine Jessica Fletcher of Murder, She Wrote is confronted with bodies wherever she goes, but over the years corpses have also piled up in the streets of Cabot Cove, Maine, where she lives.

* Murder She Wrote-A Very Good Year For Murder ( 1988 )

Kabir also played roles on Dynasty, Murder, She Wrote, Magnum, P. I., Hunter, Knight Rider and Highlander: The Series amongst others.

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Some of the most popular TV series which premiered during the 1980s or carried over from the 1970s include: Alf, Airwolf, The A-Team, Dynasty, Dallas, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum, P. I., Miami Vice, Diff ' rent Strokes, The Jeffersons, The Facts of Life, The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote, 21 Jump Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Night Court, Who's the Boss ?, Family Matters, Quantum Leap, Saved by the Bell, Roseanne, Full House, The Golden Girls, Cheers, Growing Pains, Family Ties, Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Married ... with Children.

After leaving Little House, she continued acting in television shows like The Equalizer, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Murder, She Wrote, and was the associate producer for the next to last TV project Michael Landon made before dying: Where Pigeons Go to Die ( 1990 ).

When Moessinger was hired as executive producer for Murder, She Wrote, he offered Straczynski a job as co-producer.

He wrote an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the Showtime network, which was nominated for a Writer's Guild of America award, and a Murder, She Wrote movie, Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For, which he produced.

Aaron laments that Tamora has now outdone him in evil ; " She has out-done me in my own Art –/ Out-done me in Murder – Kille'd her own Child ./ Give it me – I ’ le eat it.

She then returned to television as a guest-star in the mystery series Murder, She Wrote, scoring favorable reviews.

The channel shows the German premiere of 30 Rock and Friday Night Lights, as well a wide variety of old and recent American drama and comedy, including Murder, She Wrote, Northern Exposure, Monk, Third Watch, Rescue Me, Six Feet Under, Seinfeld, ER, The King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond, Caroline in the City, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones and Falling Skies.

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Both films were made by the same writer-director team behind the popular Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple film, Murder She Said.

In 1987, Burton played Dave Robinson, a journalist ( sports writer ), in the third season of Murder, She Wrote, episode 16 " Death Takes a Dive " starring Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher.

Since M * A * S * H, Farrell has guest starred in Murder, She Wrote ; Justice League ; Matlock ; Mannix ; Desperate Housewives ; and many others.

She also starred in three series of the comedy show Murder Most Horrid.

* Murder, She Wrote as Sara ( 1 episode, 1994 )

* Konstantin Raikin, Neudacha Puaro ( Poirot's Failure ) ( 2002 ; based on " The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ")

* Heini Göbel, ( 1954 ; an adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express )

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

Ulmer's other noirs include Strange Illusion ( 1945 ), also for PRC ; Ruthless ( 1948 ), for Eagle-Lion, which had acquired PRC the previous year ; and Murder Is My Beat ( 1955 ), for Allied Artists.

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** The Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, suspending the death penalty for murder in the United Kingdom ; renewal of the Act in 1969 made the abolition permanent.

; Kill Doctor Lucky: Craigdarroch: An Accessory to Murder ( 1998 ): An expansion board for Kill Doctor Lucky, Craigdarroch depicts Craigdarroch Castle, a mansion in Victoria, British Columbia.

Other films that starred Aykroyd in the 1990s included Exit to Eden, Blues Brothers 2000, and Getting Away with Murder ; these were also poorly received.

Murder ; extermination ; torture ; rape ; political, racial, or religious persecution and other inhumane acts reach the threshold of crimes against humanity only if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice.

Executive producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove were responsible for both Matlock and Jake and the Fatman as well as Diagnosis: Murder, created by Joyce Burditt ( which itself was a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman ) in 1993, also on CBS ; Father Dowling Mysteries in 1988 on NBC, CBS, ABC ; and the 30 Perry Mason made-for-TV movies from 1985 until 1995 on NBC.

Dial M for Murder is sometimes confused with Midnight Lace ( US ; David Miller, 1960 ), starring Rex Harrison and Doris Day as the two films have a similar setting and subject-matter.

Christie wrote a concluding novel to her Marple series, Sleeping Murder, in 1940.

Waits wrote the following introduction for the Tompkins Square compilation People Take Warning – Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913 – 1938:

Straczynski joined Murder for two seasons and wrote 7 produced episodes.

American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote a book-length verse play on the massacre, The Murder of Lidice, which was printed in its entirety in the 19 October 1942, edition of Life magazine and published as a book that same year by Harper.

In 1997 The New York Times, covering the book The Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine and High-Stakes Science, wrote:

Cole's story " Murder, Morphine and Me ", which he illustrated and possibly wrote for publisher Magazine Village's True Crime Comics # 2 ( May, 1947 ), became a centerpiece of psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham's crusade against violent comic books.

Although authors such as Anne Perry wrote in the genre during the next decade, it wasn't until about 1990 that the genre's popularity saw a fairly quick ascent with works such as Lindsey Davis's Falco novels, set in the Roman Empire of Vespasian ; Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody novels, in which the main character is not only a Victorian lady but an early feminist and an archaeologist working in early 20th century Egypt ; Steven Saylor's " Roma Sub Rosa " novels, set in the Roman Republic at the time of Julius Caesar ; John Maddox Roberts's SPQR series set during the Roman Republic ; and P. C. Doherty's various series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, partly indebted to the hardboiled tradition, and the Canterbury Tales of Mystery and Murder.

Comics, especially the crime / horror titles pioneered by EC Comics, were not lacking in gruesome images ; Wertham reproduced these extensively, pointing out what he saw as recurring morbid themes such as " injury to the eye " ( as depicted in Plastic Man creator Jack Cole's " Murder, Morphine and Me ", which he illustrated and probably wrote for publisher Magazine Village's True Crime Comics Vol.

" Principal adapter " Exton wrote The ABC Murders for the series and more controversially The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Agatha Christie's room at the Hotel Pera Palas in Istanbul, where she wrote Murder on the Orient Express

Meanwhile, James Berardinelli wrote that the film " has inexplicably managed to eliminate almost everything that was worthwhile about Dial M for Murder, leaving behind the nearly-unwatchable wreckage of a would-be ' 90s thriller.

He wrote a play which was widely performed in the 1980s, " Mr. Fothergill's Murder ," and wrote for television and film.

During 1997, he wrote a book about the Simpson case, called Murder in Brentwood ( 1997, ISBN 0895264218 ).

Additional credits include Miami Vice, Murder, She Wrote, the Showtime television movie Common Ground ( which he also wrote ), and Cheers, which earned him an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

It is generally believed that Christie wrote Curtain ( Hercule Poirot's last mystery, which concludes the sleuth's career and life ) and Sleeping Murder during World War II to be published after her death, and that Sleeping Murder was most probably written sometime during the Blitz, which took place between September 1940 and May 1941.

He wrote much background and theme music for motion pictures, including the films Sex and the Single Girl, How to Murder Your Wife ( 1965 ), Synanon, Boeing Boeing ( 1965 ), Lord Love a Duck ( 1966 ), Duel at Diablo ( 1966 ), The Odd Couple ( 1968 ), Barefoot in the Park ( 1967 ) and Harlow ( 1965 ), for which he received two Grammy nominations for the song " Girl Talk ".

The most famous chronicler of true crime trials in English history is the amateur criminologist William Roughead, a Scots lawyer who between 1889 and 1949 attended every murder trial of significance held in the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, and wrote of them in essays published first in such journals as The Juridical Review and subsequently collected in best-selling books with such titles as Malice Domestic, The Evil That Men Do, What Is Your Verdict ?, In Queer Street, Rogues Walk Here, Knave's Looking Glass, Mainly Murder, Murder and More Murder, Nothing But Murder, and many more ….